we tried to joke a little bit back and forth and keep our spirits up. >> richard, john and ghazi, we are profoundly grateful to see you this morning. i think we can just take a moment and say how beloved you are by this organization and how thankful we are you're with us. >> savannah spoke for all of us there. we are all so happy to know they're safe. these are our friends and coworkers, all combat zone veterans. we've all worked together in some tough places. and we should explain the reason secrecy was important here, the reason we couldn't share the fact that this was going on until it was resolved was to deprive their captors of the knowledge of the value of the prisoners they had. secrecy was in this case a life and death matter. and by the way, richard believes their captors were a pro-assad, pro-syrian government militia. so we'll take a break. when we come back, the gathering storm that could make a mark on holiday travel in this country. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung functio